Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:51:41 -0500
From: BARBARA HILL HUDSON BHHUDSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GROVE.IUP.EDU
Subject: Re: Sears & Roebuck; Montgomery Ward
We always used "five-and-ten" (50's and 60's) to mean Woolworth or Kresge's and
sometime we would use the whole phrase in a statement like "That looks like it
came from the five and ten cent store." Perhaps we were influenced by the song
lyrics. (New Jersey and Chicago)
Barbara
bhhudson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]grove.iup.edu